Nicolai Tsiskaridze is deep injuried, he must be operate of his knee and the Pique Dame will be certainly cancelled as he is the lonely dancer of this ballet. He won't appear on stage before a long time, it's so a pity. I'm really sad for him and I hope he will recover very quickly because it's a generous dancer on stage and so interesting !

As Cathy has already said, it now looks as if Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) will have to be cancelled, as there isn't another dancer in the Bolshoi suitable for this role.

On a more cheerful note, I visited Nikolai on Tuesday and he is hopeful that his injury isn't as serious as was first thought. Happily he is not experiencing pain and although obviously deeply disappointed at missing the opportunity to dance "Clavigo" he is looking forward to dancing again with the Paris Opera Ballet next year. This is his first major injury and he is being very stoical about it.

We managed a long discussion in a hybrid mixture of French, Russian and English about the Paris Opera Ballet dancers and Nikolai spoke most warmly of his happiness working with Clairemairie Osta and Marie-Agnes Gillot, both of whom he likes and admires very much.

Although it was disappointing not to have seen Nikolai dance on this occasion, I nevertheless had a highly enjoyable time in Paris and was especially happy to meet up with Ileana at the Opera. Now I know the location of the "official" Criticaldance meeting place at the Opera, I shall make my way there on future trips too!

The first independent Russian prize for supreme achievements in art and literature is called “Triumph” and is awarded annually since 1992. Among the prize-winners for the year 2003 announced yesterday there is one ballet dancer – Nikolai Tsiskaridze who at the moment is convalescing in a Paris clinic after an operation on his knee.

Last week the Bolshoi's Director General Anatole Iksanov gave an interview to the "Independent Newspaper" in Moscow and said: "Hugues Gall and the head of the ballet company Brigitte Lefevre visited Moscow just now for the opening night of "Romeo & Juliet". They were enraptured with it and expressed their regret that the repertoire for our tour had been already made up and we will not be able to show our new production in Paris in January. However, there is an idea to bring "Romeo & Juliet" to Paris separately, together with "The Queen of Spades" by Roland Petit. It was "The Queen of Spades" that our theatre was originally planning to bring - our idea was to show to the French audience two*) French ballets danced by the Russians. Due to the injury received by Nikolai Tsiskaridze who danced the role of Hermann we had to change our repertoire urgently." As you can see, Ileana and Cathy, there is still hope to see "The Queen of Spades"in Paris. --------- *) The second French ballet of course is "La Fille du Pharaoh" where Nikolai was brilliant as Tahor.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze will be 30 on the 31st of December. The ‘bolshoi.net’ prepared a display of 30 absolutely stunning photographs to celebrate this date. Most of the photographs show him in different roles, including those danced with Lopatkina, Gracheva, Nadezhda Pavlova as well as the shots made at rehearsals with Ulanova, Grigorovich, Vassilyev and Roland Petit. See:http://www.bolshoi.net/photos/logvinov/tsiskar-30/page.htm

Yesterday I read that Tsiskaridze said in his interview to a Russian newspaper "Your Leisure-time":

"I received a great number of messages from ballet people and ballet lovers in France who expressed their sympathy to me in connection with my injury. I felt so pleased and grateful to them. I am not one of a French company but they remember me. If I am back on my feet and everything goes well. I have already got an invitation to Opera de Paris for the next season".

He added that he would liked these French people to know how much he appreciated all their messages.

I am overjoyed! Nikolai Tsiskaridze appeared on stage for the first time since October! He did Raymonda Adagio with Elisabeth Platel at the Benois de la Dance gala concert in Moscow! I wish I was there!

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